On this day in 1871, Robert Louis Stevenson, 20 years old, told his father he was giving up engineering to become a writer, (books by this author). He suffered from chronic poor health—he would die of tuberculosis at 44—which had made schooling difficult, yet he was expected to carry on his father's trade of lighthouse design. He married a divorced American, and the couple moved to Switzerland, where he wrote the adventure story Treasure Island (1883). He later wrote Kidnapped (1887), and A Child's Garden of Verses (1885).
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Friday, April 08, 2005
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